tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post3878601030686379447..comments2024-03-14T18:26:18.208-07:00Comments on autism's gadfly: The Autism Job Club: Don't judge a book by its cover jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-87779607037082119202015-06-11T19:18:53.245-07:002015-06-11T19:18:53.245-07:00I have absolute respect for everyone's autonom...I have absolute respect for everyone's autonomy including yours. If you want to remain a wingnut that's your prerogative jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-60420990811060036792015-06-11T12:52:20.922-07:002015-06-11T12:52:20.922-07:00Your view of autism needing a cure is horrible and...Your view of autism needing a cure is horrible and wrong. You have no respect for peoples' autonomy at all, do you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-18832694906266151352015-06-10T12:25:06.336-07:002015-06-10T12:25:06.336-07:00Michael Bernick: Thanks for your comments on my b...Michael Bernick: Thanks for your comments on my blog. It's been a little while since I read your book and wrote the post, but I do seem to remember various blurbs on age of autism, amazon and other sites billed your book as providing solutions to obtaining employment for autistic people. Other than disclosure (a method which I know is ineffective due not only to common sense, but having tried it and being a person on the spectrum in the work force for nearly 28 years) you really offer no solutions at all, but really describe the problem. I was interested to read about specialistirne's being ineffective as I've suspected the media has ballyhooed them. Adults with autism indeed operate in the same job world, but you're naive if you think anything is going to change this or there are any quick or easy answers. Social mores, changing or stable, are not going to help people with autism. <br /><br />I'm not sure how much you know about me, but I am a 59-year-old autistic man who worked sporadically for nearly twenty-eight years, was fired from multiple jobs and had a frustrating time so I believe, at the risk of being immodest, I know as much as anyone about the process. <br /><br />Thanks again for reading my post and commenting. jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-68592210579418897962015-06-09T12:03:50.628-07:002015-06-09T12:03:50.628-07:00Jonathan: You raise good questions concerning the ...Jonathan: You raise good questions concerning the book, and employment in general not only for adults with autism, but for all adults. So let me say a few words in response.<br /><br />The book does not provide the magic technique for getting a job. Any book that promises to do so is not worth reading. What the book does do is describe some of the strategies tried so far, and their results. It also tries to address broader directions for the job world. Adults with autism operate in the same job world as all workers, and it is important to understand what jobs are being created, and how the structures of employment are changing.<br /><br />I agree with you that there remains a gap between the theories of neurodiversity and current unemployment levels of adults with autism. It will be a gradual process, mainly of testing strategies on a local level to change this. But social mores are changing, as are the demographics.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16897262544177770467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-58359866675652284902015-05-02T16:12:45.940-07:002015-05-02T16:12:45.940-07:00I'm even surprised a book with such an outlook...I'm even surprised a book with such an outlook has come out admitting such pitfalls, which contrasts with the currently hyped narrative of autistics only having trivial social barriers, needlessly preventing them from working as perfectly qualified employees. It's not often enough considered that employers/co-workers can't necessarily prop up disabled employees' performance all the time. They're already busy and have other individuals to look after and deal with. My job situations deteriorated because I couldn't stop messing up, and I often couldn't catch on well enough. I couldn't compete with it, as they cut back my hours and work tasks for me to do. I didn't have a job coach who was helpful at all, even after over 2 years of looking for such job resources.lurkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14926254116447529725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-8027509775643658332015-05-02T06:52:49.979-07:002015-05-02T06:52:49.979-07:00The regional centers have a job club but few get j...The regional centers have a job club but few get jobs despite attending for months. This includes mild moderate DD people including real high functioning autism. I attended that crat pot job club and did not get a job. This book ostensibly helps even less than a real job club and the liberals gone bad in the DD services are against sheltered workshops though a few day programs give you a few hours to work a day and make some money.willienoreply@blogger.com